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Worlds caused panic in the US.
(From Newsletter)
IF weOre tracing sci-fi spectaculars, it was Orson Welles who played the prank on the American public the day before HalloweOen, October 30, 1938. Millions of Americans had tuned in to a popular radio programme that featured plays directed by, and often starring, Welles. The performance that evening was an adaptation of HG WellsO sci-fi novel The War of the Worlds, about a Martian invasion of the earth.
In his adaptation, Welles made it sound like a news broadcast, which was the crucial determinant in audience reaction.
As the play unfolded, dance music was interrupted a number of times by fake news bulletins reporting that a OOhuge flaming objectOO had dropped on a farm near Grovers Mill, New Jersey. Then actors playing news announcers, officials and other news roles described the landing of an invasion force from Mars and the destruction of the United States.
The broadcast also contained a number of explanations that it was all a radio play, but if members of the audience missed the brief explanation at the beginning, the next one didnOt arrive until 40 minutes into the programme.
At one point in the ...
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